Waist-belt attachment.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLEMENT L. STEPHENSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WAIST-BELT ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,594, dated August22, 1899. Application filed May 31, 1899. derial No. 718,908. (Nomodel.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLEMENT L. STEPHEN- SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing in New York city, county of New York, in theState of N ewYork, have invented a Waist-Belt Attachment, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to combined shirtwaist holders and skirt-supportersof that class in which a waist-belt is provided with hooks to hold thetwo garments together. An example of such a device is illustrated in myPatent No. 603,158, dated April 26, 1898.

The object of my invention is to construct a simple and inexpensivedevice of this character which will fold up into a small compass, willrequire no preparation of the shirtwaist or skirt, will securely holdthe two garments in proper relation to each other, will leave thewaist-line smooth, and be convenient and comfortable to the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is perspective view of awaist-belt provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofone of my improved attachments. Fig. 3 is a section through one of theplates and the belt, and Fig. 4 is a view of a modification.

One of the features of my invention consists in making the hook-carryingpart or parts in the form of a plate or plates separate from the beltproper and provided with slots or other such means by which the plate orplates may be easily applied to textile leather or other such flexiblebelts.

Another feature of my invention consists in the manner of mounting thehooks in the plates.

While the hook-carrying part may be a single plate, I prefer to make itof three plates A A A Fig. 1. The hook part B is similar to that shownin my above-mentioned patent and consists of a U-shaped wire withsharpened points I) b bent up into the form of a pair of hooks. Twoholes for the passage of these hooks are formed in the plate, so thatwhen the U-shaped part lies up against one side of the plate the twosharpened points will project at an angle from the other side, as shownin Fig. 3. The plates are so applied or secured to the flexible belt 0that the latter will lie outside the U-shaped part of the hook and holdthe latter in the position shown in Fig. 3, with the sharp pointsprojecting on the other side of the plate. When not so held by the belt0, the hooks can swing to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig.3, but cannot work entirely out.

The two outer ,of the three plates A A A are shown as with theirsharpened pairs of hooks projecting outward from the belt and upward tosupport the band of the skirt. The middle plate has its sharpened hooksprojecting inward of the belt and downward at the inner face of the beltto engage with and hold down the waist.

The hook-carrying plate or plates should be provided with slots a a,through which the belt will be laced. When three such plates are used,they need have no other mechanical connection with each other thanthrough the belt itself, as illustrated in Fig. 1. In that event theplates will be all alike and each plate will have two vertical slots a,one near each edge, as shown in Fig. 2. If preferred, the plates may behinged together, as at a, Fig. 4, and in that case but four slots at,instead of six, will suffice for the three plates.

Owing to the main part of the belt being of textile or other flexiblematerial, the belt is not only convenient and comfortable to the wearer,but it can also be folded up into a very small space.

I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, anattachment for a waist-belt to be inserted between the waist and skirt,consisting of a plate provided with sharpened hooks adapted to projectfrom both faces of the belt, those on one face projecting upward andthose on the other face projecting downward, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an attachment for a waist-belt to beinserted between the waist and skirt, consisting of asupporting-platecomprising a plurality of parts hinged together and having sharpenedhooks on the diiferent parts adapted to project on both faces of thebelt, those on one face projecting upward and those on the other faceprojecting downward, substantially as described.

3. Asa new article of manufacture,a waist- In testimony whereof I havesigned my belt attachment consisting of a plate adaptname to thisspecification in thepresence of ed to be secured to abelt' and having ahooktwo subscribing witnesses.

piece with a pair of bent points passing CLEMENT L. STEPHENSON. 5through openings in the plate and to be held Vitnesses:

in operative position in the plate by the belt, F. XVARREN VVRIGHT,

substantially as described. I'IUBERT HOWSON.

